Life in the spotlight can be hard for the world's biggest stars. While non-celebs can skirt round the edge of disaster without causing a commotion, a superstar's minor infringement becomes headline news.

And the one thing that reconciles all of us is the law - which no-one is above, no matter how famous.

These stars listed below have all been banned from entering the UK at one point or another in their glittering careers.

They may make more money than every staff member at UK customs combined but that couldn't stop them from falling foul of border control and being refused entry.

Chris Brown

Chris Brown at Drais LIVE 2016 (Image: Getty Images North America)

Singer Chris Brown once assaulted adored pop queen Rihanna. They were in a relationship but have since parted ways.

Brown was handed a community service order for the assault but it didn't stop there.

When he came to apply for a visa to enter Great Britain, hoping to take on a tour of the island in 2010, he was refused.

As the Daily Post reports, his application was refused on the grounds of him "being guilty of a serious criminal offence.

The singer had been planning to do a tour of the UK as part of the European leg of his 2010 tour, but this was later postponed.

The Home Office released an official statement at the time: "We reserve the right to refuse entry to the UK to anyone guilty of a serious criminal offence. Public safety is one of our primary concerns. Each application to enter the UK is considered on its individual merits."

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Dog the Bounty Hunter

The infamous American bounty hunter, Duane Lee "Dog" Chapman, and turned reality star, was scheduled to appear in the 2012 series of Celebrity Big Brother.

However, he was denied entry because of his involvement in a historical murder.

In 1976, he was convicted of first degree murder, when he had been waiting in a car when his friend accidentally shot and killed alleged pimp and drug dealer Jerry Oliver during a struggle during a deal to buy cannabis.

He was sentenced to five years in a Texas prison.

Snoop Dogg

Snoop Dogg at the 2005 Brit Awards

Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr, aka Snoop Dog, and members of his entourage were arrested after being turned away from a lounge at Heathrow Airport.

In April 26, 2006, they were denied entry to the first class lounge after it was found some members were flying economy.

After the group had been escorted outside, they vandalised a duty-free shop with whisky bottles and injured seven police officers in the disturbance.

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After spending a night behind bars, Snoop and the other men were released on bail the next day.

The Home Office decided that Snoop Dogg would be banned from entering Britain for the foreseeable future and his visa was denied the following year.

Busta Rhymes

Busta Rhymes at Park Life (Image: Manchester Evening News)

Busta Rhymes, who is actually called Trevor George Smith Jr, was stopped at immigration upon arrival into the UK and temporarily refused entry due to "unresolved convictions".

It is reported at the time that his lawyer argued that Rhymes had a valid work permit, explaining that he had played two shows in the UK earlier that year and completed community service for his convictions.

Martha Stewart

Martha Stewart (Image: Getty)

Following a widely publicised trial, Martha Stewart was found guilty (2004) of conspiracy, obstruction and lying to investigators regarding whether she and her stockbroker had been involved in insider training.

Stewart was sentenced to five months in prison and a two-year period of supervised release, with five months of which were on electronic tag.

Tyler the Creator

American rapper, music video director and record producer, Tyler Gregory Okonma announced a few years ago that he had been banned from the UK.

He made an announcement on Twitter in 2015, saying the ban was for "three to five years" due to his lyrics, which resulted in his shows then being cancelled.

His manager, Christian Clancy elaborated in a statement: “Tyler has been banned from entering the UK for somewhere between three to five years per a letter from the secretary of state for the home department of the United Kingdom.

"The letter specifically cites lyrics he wrote 6-7 years ago for his albums Bastard and Goblin – the type of lyrics he hasn’t written since. Highlights from the letter include that his work 'encourages violence and intolerance of homosexuality' and 'fosters hatred with views that’s seek to provoke others to terrorist acts'.”

Julien Blanc

Julien Blanc, known as a controversial "dating coach" is an executive coach for US-based company which offers seminars and "boot camps" for men throughout the world seeking tips on how to meet and seduce women.

Yvette Cooper called upon then Home Secretary Theresa May to deny his entry to the UK, alleging that permitting Blanc entry “legitimises sexual assault and predation” and that his pick-up techniques “directly exploit vulnerable men who buy into rape culture and end up believing that this is an appropriate way to behave."

Blanc had scheduled London seminars in 2014 and 2015, however, the UK government refused his visa application under paragraph 320 of the Immigration Rules, which allows the Home Secretary to refuse visas “on general grounds because of a person’s background, behaviour, character, conduct or associations”.

He was arrested for an alleged attempted sexual assault on a group of teenage girls but he was not charged.

He denied the claim to the authorities and returned to Kenya. When he tried to make a return trip back to Britain the following year, he was denied entry because allowing him into the country was "not conductive to the public good," according to the Home Office.